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When people get started with unit testing, they often get stumped when it comes to testing functions that have side effects. This post is a gentle introduction to some of the concepts involved in testing side effects.
The kingdom of Testadel is under threat. Learn how to test side effects in your code through this medieval tale of lies, deceit, magic and espionage.
Angular has a powerful dependency injection system. Learn how to use it so that your code complies with the Dependency Inversion Principle.
If you're getting a little more advanced in your JavaScript, you may have started using the [Symbol.iterator] to make your objects iterable. Using a generator function allows for much more idiomatic looking code and saves you from having to return an object that conforms to the iterable protocol.
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